Research Catalog

Title

Syriac encounters : papers from the sixth North American Syriac Symposium, Duke University, 26-29 June 2011 / edited by Maria Doerfler, Emanuel Fiano, and Kyle Smith.

Author

North American Syriac Symposium (6th : 2011 : Duke University)

Publication

Leuven ; Paris ; Bristol, CT : Peeters, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Doerfler, Maria
• Fiano, Emanuel
• Smith, Kyle, 1977-

Description

xix, 498 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Series Statement

Eastern Christian studies ; 20

Uniform Title

Eastern Christian studies ; v. 20.

Subject

• Syrian churches > Congresses
• Syria > Church history > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Encountering Eve in the Syriac liturgy / Susan Ashbrook Harvey (Brown University) -- The poetics of self-presentation in Ephrem's Hymns on faith 10 / Jeffrey Wickes (St. Louis University) -- A poetic life: metrical Vita of Jacob of Serug by Saʹīd bar Ṣabūnī / Robert A. Kitchen (Knox United Metropolitan Church) -- Meaningful meetings: constructing linguistic difference in and around Late Antique Antioch / Christine Shepardson (University of Tennessee) -- Aspects of linguistic thought in the Syriac exegetical tradition / Riccardo Contini (University of Naples) -- Classical Syriac and the Syriac churches: a twentieth-century history / Heleen Murre-Van Den Berg (Leiden University) -- Evagrius of Pontus on the "great gift of letters" / Charles M. Stang (Harvard Divinity School) -- 'We do not turn aside from the way of the interpreter:' Joseph Ḥazzaya's Discourse on divine providence and its apologetic intention / Nestor Kavvadas (University of Tübingen) -- Socializing Evagrius: the case of Philoxenus of Mabbug's Letter to Patricius / Maria E. Doerfler (Duke Divinity School) -- The Doors of Deir al-Surian commissioned by Moses of Nisibis: some observations on the occasion of their restoration / Karel Innemée (Leiden University) -- Dionysius of Tell-Maḥrē: patriarch, diplomat, and inquisitive chronicler / Amir Harrak (University of Toronto) -- A Syriac document and its cultural implications for third-century Roman Syria / Nathanael Andrade (University of Oregon) -- Bardaisan's psychology: known and unknown testimonies and current scholarly perspectives / Alberto Camplani (Sapienza University of Rome) -- When Judas Thomas the Apostle prays: intercessory prayer in early Syriac literature / Craig E. Morrison (Pontifical Biblical Institute) -- Some Syriac monastic encounters with Greek literature / Alberto Rigolio (University of Oxford) -- The Letter of Mara bar Serapion to his son and the Second Sophistic: Palamedes and the 'Wise King of the Jews' / Kathleen McVey (Princeton Theological Seminary) -- Scholarship on the margins: biblical and secular learning in the work of Jacob of Edessa / Alison Salvesen (University of Oxford) -- Christological debates in eighth-century Harran: the correspondence of Leo of Harran and Eliya / Ute Possekel (Harvard Divinity School) -- What does Mecca have to do with Urhōy? Syriac Christianity, Islamic origins, and the Qurʹān / Sidney H. Griffith (Catholic University of America) -- 'Sons of Magog' or 'Thorgomians'?: the description of the Turks (Book XIV) in MIchael's Chronicle and its Armenian adaptations / Andy Hilkens (Ghent University) -- The Book of Khamis bar Qardaḥe: history of the text, genres, and research perspectives / Alessandro Mengozzi (University of Turin) -- Bones in bags: relics in Syriac hagiography / Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent (Marquette University) -- A Jewish adjuration formula in three Syriac magic bowls / Stephanie Bolz (University of Michigan) -- Two Syriac manuscripts in the Special Collections Library of Duke University / Lucas Van Rompay (Duke University).

Call Number

JFF 15-1363

ISBN

• 9789042930469 (pbk.)
• 9042930462 (pbk.)

OCLC

913193158

Conference

North American Syriac Symposium (6th : 2011 : Duke University)

Title

Syriac encounters : papers from the sixth North American Syriac Symposium, Duke University, 26-29 June 2011 / edited by Maria Doerfler, Emanuel Fiano, and Kyle Smith.

Publisher

Leuven ; Paris ; Bristol, CT : Peeters, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Eastern Christian studies ; 20

Eastern Christian studies ; v. 20.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Doerfler, Maria, editor.

Fiano, Emanuel, editor.

Smith, Kyle, 1977- editor.

Research Call Number

JFF 15-1363